November 03, 2025
Forget Azure Advisor's generic recommendations. This is the comprehensive, battle-tested framework for reducing Azure costs without breaking production—with KQL queries, tagging strategies, and stakeholder management included.
Azure
FinOps
Cost Management
KQL
Governance
November 03, 2025
Azure Advisor promises 'potential savings' but delivers theater. Here's why 90% of cost optimization recommendations are useless—and what actually works.
Azure
FinOps
Cost Management
Azure Advisor
October 29, 2025
Stop clicking buttons. These 4 Logic Apps automate the boring operational tasks that break when ignored: unused resources, certificate expiration, tag compliance, and backup verification.
Azure
Logic Apps
Automation
Operations
Cost Management
Governance
October 11, 2025
Microsoft says subscriptions are billing boundaries. Two years later you're maintaining manual spreadsheets. Here's what nobody tells you: count your applications first, then design subscriptions around teams.
Azure
FinOps
Cost Management
Subscriptions
October 02, 2025
Everyone links to Chris Bowman's template. Nobody explains why it's 19GB and needs Premium. Here's what's actually happening.
Azure
FinOps
Power BI
Cost Management
September 24, 2025
Azure Cost Management works perfectly. Your finance team still can't figure out who should pay for what. Here's why cost center tagging doesn't solve enterprise chargeback.
Azure
Cost Management
FinOps
Chargeback
Enterprise
September 23, 2025
Order, capitalization, spelling, and the Type tag that will save your sanity. Hard-earned lessons from real Azure environments.
Azure
Tags
Governance
FinOps
Cost Management
January 01, 2024
Azure bills are messy, dashboards don't always add up, and tags are a nightmare. Here's how I'm making sense of it — and how you can too.
Azure
FinOps
Cost Management
Governance
January 01, 2024
Your Azure invoice isn’t a report — it’s a receipt. What your board needs is a story about cloud spend, risk, and ROI. Learn how to connect Azure costs to departments, apps, and business units with reporting and tags.
Azure
Cost Management
FinOps
Cloud Governance
